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ne4s.anl '11)E , C , atmmander in Chief en' . • 1. deavourSto i.A.irsol4kers by ,the piece, who had not been able .tubuy serfs in the markets of l'eteksbutib and Riga. "- Faithful inhabitants of Finland, restiolable people, 'your King since the beginning of his reign has constantly endeavoured to diffuse knowledge'and profundity through your country- - -a treacherous friend is now attempting to disturb your . repose, and throw you back into the darkness of antient times. " His . sword.is unsheathed over your heads. Do not rely. on his. treacherous promkei, which merely tend to unnerve:the. arm of loyalty, And decoy you from your faithful attachMent Co your King and , Country.. " Concerned at the misfortunes attending on War, Uut. convinced that he hai not provoked them, your King feels satisfied that your attachment to his person remains unimpaired, and you mardepend on his making the utmost exertions, assisted by a power- . ful Ally, to prote& and avenge you.--Stockholm, March 11, 1808. 'GOTTIttIBI/11t3H,, MARCH 21.—'-A Courier has ar rived this morning from• Stockholm with Dispatches for England. It seems there has been an.affair in Finland bet Ween the Russians and Swedes, in which the for Mer are said to have' lost 6000 men, and the tatter 1700; but- the Swedes have however re treated. This happened near Tarvastchus. We Babe wit yet received the particulars. An Embargo was laid last Wet*, in this harbvur, upon all Russian, Danish, and Prussian Ships.--,The following , ' are here, iuno; Robertson, Albertina Marianne, Mohap, Undernem- Mg, Rhode, and the Nikx; Hai,n, from London, for Memel ; Maria, Auchlany, from ditto, for Pillau ; Preland,- klanna. Man, for Palau.; and.the Friendship, Roman, frOni London, fok,Koiligiburgh, ,ind two others ; also two at "Marstrand, the Rudolph and the Fate.--Two others sailed, but will; must likely be , brought back. On, the rytit His Ma ryo'Sn. n n ,V and oansfanat sailed rd, t.ite tut ly, th N e asiu Sound. Quebec, Lynx, ' lc NiArtcl4 Division of Spanish . troops'are ordered 'to -,march to the Isle ofitugen. OttxTEns''siDivision is alsO exp . e6,tecl to go lo Pow& .A4cOants',.to which. we can give credit, state tO amount to 44,800 plena viz. in . Finland,'.under General KLINGSPuit'S • command, 1.7,006 ; inScbania, under • General• TOLL, 8,800 ; iii Gittentnirgh and the neigobourbood, uniier'Ge 3,000 ; and in . the ProVinces be tend Stockholm, a,Corps of about 2,700 ; .a Reierve of .1,300 in East Gothland, and a second Reserve in the Northern. Pro,inoes. : • HAMBURGH, MARCH 7.—Yesterday morning the Prince of PONTOCORVO reviewed, abont 10 or. t. trench .and Spanish troops : imniediStely after the reviel.v-,- the Spanish division received orders to tnareh to the Isle - of Raged. . . HELSINBURGH, MARCH 19.—Yesterday a Cou il6f arrived' ftern Elsinetu— with accounts of the death of the Xing orDeNAitAitk, which took place inddenlY on the 'l3th of this month. .On the 16th the Crown Priribe was proclaimed King on the,Pa rade; with the title of `` FREDERICK the Vith ;" tut there was not theleait acclamation nor aPPear ance of joy on the occasion. 1311RNADOTTR had arrived at Copenhagen, and it kiaid, that about four thousand French troops, bad ayeady got over to Zealand, and that .mort were daily crossing the Belts. • • I'HE KING OF DaNuattK:--The death of Cuttis .fitm. the Vlith, King of Denmark,, is announced in the Gottenbergli Mail which arrived this day. He was born on the 29th of January, '1749. In the ►ear 1766 he was married to the Princess CAROLINA MATILLA, Sister of our revered Monarch. The un lettunate history of that Princess; owing; it is gene tally Supposed, to the enmity of her Step-mother, long'been a subject Of regret in this Country. The late King of DIiNhIAIIK came to England year I 767;'and was received with every possible well Of respea by altr a nk s Of people W; as ell • AS by the illustriottS family to whom he had beentercefitly allied. Soon after hisreturn to Denmark, his fa culties, .which were never bright, sunk int* a decay, which wholly unfitted him . for the duties of hiS situation . , and his ,Kingdom has ever Since.been go yernecl under his name, withoOt the least chance that he would be able to resume his Royal funaions. liOore this tuelaniholy event in his life there was Nothing in his charaaer 'morally or intelleaually calculated, to exeite'adiniration fir provoke ceiistire. A vessel which lOft.,Oporto on the loth inst. has been brought in by one of our cruizers. The Cafain p-: reports, that th e Spanish Soldiers at Oporto were about to be Superseded by a FrenCh force from Lisbon. Various reasons are assigned for the change; but the true one k, that the Spaniards lave.a&ed with too much" lenity towards the Porte ' gtiese, and suffered occasionally a ship td :depart laden with wide. This_will be prevented in.future. It is stated from Mexico, that m case -BuoilAratere . succeeds in revolutionizing Spain, the peoples of that country are not indisposed to threw off the yoke of foreign dominion, and raise 'among themselves an independent Government.. : Advices fro'in Madrid state, that a Decree, bearing date the ISt January, t Km, bad been published, there, prohibiting the sailing of any Vessel belong.; trig to tile nations M Alliance withlfra4c 4 );(ind,SPaiii. The reason assigned for this a& of . the Government is,'fliat such Vessels may not fall into the hands of the British. This is in conformity with the.Frepch Decree of the 24th of December. , Mrs. BILLINGTON is going to Bath, to assist at the Concert of the veteran RAlrr4t)n. • • The Oratorio last night, at Covent Garckah'iwo Tie Messiah. it was uniformly well suswtne4l the Performers, v oca l an d instrumental, ini . e natien applauded by a numerous audience. =• . 1 . 4 NAVAL NEWS PLYMOUTH, MARCtI 44.--Arrived the Pappen , burgh•Galliot GEIPAS, feotY 60110; wrth wine and cork, for orders;. the American Ship .Lyett; Guide, Cats, from New Orleans, laden with sugar and cotton, for orders; . the OldenbUrgh. Galliot Hermigna Relena, Sciftrartrt - v3, frord St. Michael's, with fruit, for London ;• a Spanish Brig, name. un known, laden with rosin, captured by the Minerva Frigat ; the Portuguese Brig ; Nova Aniixade, Ro BELLA, laden with cotton, from Lisbon, bound to London ; the Transport Mary Frances; ATKINSON ;' William, FRANCIS ; Amiable, GAMR . LR tare, BRINE,aIf from Malta abd Gibraltar: The 50 gtin Ship which arrived here yesterday, with the Triumph, from' Halifax, is the Leopard, Admiral BERKELEY.' Arrived the Success, WCOY, from St. Michael's, with 'fruit. The Brunswick, off' 74 gunk, is Cottle into Har bour to be refitted.. Arrived the Sparks'and Rebecca, DYE, from St. Michael's, with fruit bound to London ; also the Susan, TUMMON ; Thetis, DAVMON ; Mentor, COL LINS; Charlotta "Inn, BARRETT; Hero, BARNARD, all from Gibraltar and Malta, part of the Fleet which, came under convoy of the Sirius Frigate. It appears, as far as can be discoirered, that only one.of the Fleet was taken by the two French Fri gates, as stated yesterday, but her name has not been ascertained. Arrived the Diligent Store-ship; of 14 guns, Capt. TURNER, frog Malta and Gibraltar, laden with timber and stares, bound to Poftsmouth, put in by contrary winch ; also 'thi following Vessels from Malta and Gibraltar, part of the Fleet under convoy of the Sirius Frigate, viz. the George, LEWE P LYN the thy;nouth, J. Lcwat.t.yr; ; . and the Caintriad; PHIPPS, all bound to London ; the names of the other Ships of the Fleet arrived here have not'. Yet. been ascertained. FALMOU.TH, - MARCH 23.—Arrived this day• the Barque Patext, ANDgßsim, from Liverpool,. bound to London ; the Sloop Fux, FIALROY, fipM Limes, with fruit fur Hull, out 35 days, sprung her ; bowsprit ; the Success, WALLER, with, Brandies• from G•iernsey, lost one man. overboard ) the Lind 'Nelson, Howe, from Plymouth ; the Ceres, Bow iqx, .from Padstow ; the Lively, WRITE, from Cardigan.; his Majesty's Schooner Crane, Lieut: rTiND4I.I., from Plymouth, and the American ,Brig: ., Fame, HAM I, from Lisbon, 'with salt, 'wine and fruit, bound to New Providence, detained on the 26th • 111 e. by his Majesty's Ship Coma, 20 guns,: Honourable Captain PERCY. Capt..HAAirs and one Seaman washed overboard and drow4ed on the Bth inst. in a gale of wind. - • Sailed the Ariadue Cutter to the Westward. YARMOUTH, MARCH (26.—Sailed on a cruize, the Vestal, Sappho, Mnsquito, Forward, Safeguard, Bruizer, Archer, and . Sealark. - Remain in the Roads; the Majestic and Roebuck. Intelligence has been recei v ed here, by the For rester Sloop of War, of two French Frigates being at sea; they were seen otf Flarpbro' Head. PO RT S , MARCH 25.—Arrived yesterday the Lord Castlereagh, Ky maa,,and Princess.of Hass Acn, for India, from the IYowns ; and to-day, the Pilot Brig Hop. Capt. WALroLE, froxu the Westward. Sailed the Coquette Sloop of War, CApt. With four Transports with water for; the Fleet off 11,isbon •; Magnet Brig, mid Escort Gun-brig for tho Downs. Passed by the Centaur, of '74 guns, and Euryalus Frigate, irdm Plymouth, for the Downs; MARCII 2 L—Arrive4 the from Gottenburgll; she parted from wtti Sail off the floniber. The Hata aid Success, ----, for this Port arc ebming The• Breinen Packet is lost, crew saved ; three more Vessels are lost in the Humber, with:all their crews. Sailed the /Tardy Gun-brig, Lieut. PrAIDIREAU ; .drat Schooner,. Lieut. BIRD ; and 4/phea . Cutter, Lieut. MANTON, on separate cruizes. The Coquette Sloop of War; Captain I!ORBE6,#, gives Convoy ltistrations to Vessels bound to the Mediterranean. Sngratt4ss§; MAR6.II 2.—Ttici 'Diadem; of U 4 auns, Capt. CAISMIELL, W 34 paid•up to six rnontb and the Subsidy for the King of Sweden on board; with width she will sail imninvaiatoly the, wind permits. , Saiked the Lighiniitg Sloop of War, Capt . ll. C. DOYLE, far Portsmouth. SHKEItti.ESB, MARCH 24; -Came down froth the Tower the Demford.''rentler,;Lietit, with Volunteers . and itnurest rnerr for the Met. Passed by ,this day and, yeA6rday several outward bound East. Indiamen, for the Downs: 25.---Aboat too Sail of Merchantmen - 3 ' mostly Greenlandtnen and light Coll:ers, are under weigh, with a fine moderate breeze at W.N.W.. •• The Diaaior, 6.i., and ihnefici Frigate are also expeaed to sail.--The l'orictrns, Capt. Russet:L., sailed with the Convoy (his day ; a l so the F th r,Sareth, .and the John and,Thomas Transports Sailed this day. Several Sail .uf outward-bound came -dOwti' the iVO ri :70_11 P4IINE. ~..r._ , THOMAS PAINEIs PETITION TO . CONCRESp - , rftrsrt:rr..o ON Tka 41'.11 FEB. AND REFlialtß9 1O ill/ OF CLAIMS., • •7 • t ratio , R n, thi:Be.preseniative;' of thi Unified SieteL, The purport of. this Address is to state a ,claim I "feel myself entitled to make en the United States, leaving to tileir :ftepresentatives in Congress th de- Cide,ort. its worth and its meritp._ The case is as. follows : Toi,vards. the letter end of the year 1780, the Con , ., ,tinental , money had beeeme so depreciated, a paper , dollat not being worth-,More than - a cent, . that if, seemed next to impossible to continu&the war. ~5.A..4, the United States•were then in alliance with France, , it becaine necessary to make France acquainted with our real' situation. I therefore drew lap a letter ' ' to Count Vergennes, stating, undisg uisedly, the true , case; . toncluding with the request whether France could not, either: as a subsidy or. a, loan, supply the United State's-with a million sterling,- and continue thataupplranneally during the war ? I showed this letter to NI. , iVlarbois; Secretary to . the French Mini ester:' His remark: upon it was, that a million sent out of the nation eXhatised it more than ten millions' spent in it. I . then•sheWed it to Ralph hard, Mem ber of Congress from South Carolina. He borrowed the letter of me, and said, " We will endeavourto t- do something about in it Congress." Accordingly Congress appointed Colonel . John Laurens, then Aid-de-Camp to General Washing 'ton, to go to France, aid make representation of our situation, for the purpose of obtaining assistance. Col. Laurens wished to decline . the mission, and that Congress would appoint Col. Hamilton, which Con gress did not choose to do. Col. Laurens then came to.. state the .case to me.' He said he was enough acquainted with the military diffiCulties of the army, but that he was not enough acquainted with political affairs, nor with the resources of the country; but, ssidl-he, if you will go with me, I will accept', which I-aereed to and did so. - We sailed frogs Boston.. in the Alliance Frigate, C . ; ipt. Barry, the beginning of February, 1701, and on 'ye.' 'at I.:Orient the beginning of March. :The 1 , ,1 obtained from , France was ,six millions of livres as a present, and ten millions as a, loan, borrowed . in ki , 2lland, on the security-of France. We sailed from Brest in, .the French Aeselution Frigate, the Ist of tine, and arrived 'at Boston the 25th of August,., ringing with us two niillient and a half in silver, andeenvoying a Ship and a,Beig laden with cloath !ng and Military, storei. " The money.wastransported la s;N.teen ox..teaMs to the National. Bank at Phila delphia, which enabled the army to,March to York Town to attaak, in conjunction :with . the French' -army under Rocharnbeau, .the British:army-under •Co'rn.wallis. " As,J, neVer had,a.cent for . thik a service,, I feel myself ,entitled, as . the country now is in a State of prespeiitY, to - state the case to COngre4s.. As to my- political Works, beginning.:' With -the pamphlet Co . rxtpipn Sane, published the beginning. olJanuary, 177(J,- which awakened. Americans to a. declaration, Of Independence, the President and 'Vico . President both .Imo s w.' -, As they] were works done from. principle, 1 cannot-- dishonour that principle', by asking any reward for them. The Country has , been benefited by them, " and I make myself happy in the knowledge of it. It is, however, proper- for 7 niello add,--that-the mere independenceof America, were it to have been followed by a system olgovern , mem modelled atter - the• corrupt. system 01,-the .English Government, would nut ,have! interested, . ale with' thes unabated ardour, it did. - It was to. bring forwardzind essablish-the representative sYstern of government, as the Work itself will show, that was .. the leading principle with the. in writing 'that Work, and all :my other works, during the progre;s of the Revolt ikan.' And I followed the same prin ciple in writing the Righls of Man in England, There is a 11esolve of the Old Congress ; while they sat at New York, of a grantro mu of 3000 dollars: The Resolve is put in handsothe language, but it has a relation to a matter which .:it does nut, express.— Eldridge. Gerry was Chairman of the Committee :who brought in the Resolve. 'lf Congress shribld judge proper to refer this Memorial to a :Committee, I will inform that Cotnniittie of. the particulars of it. I.ha% e also to state tO'Congress, that the.authoril, ty of the old Congress was' become. so reduced to."' wards the latter end of the war, as to be unable to hold the States together. Congress could do no. more than recerninend, of „whieh the States took-no !mice; and when they did it-was never uniformly. , After the failure of the limper cent. duty, recom mended by Congresi, to pay the interest of a loan to be borrowed id Holland, I wrote to Chancellor . Li-. vingstonek then-Winister for Foreign Affairs, and • -Robert Muftis, Alinister of Finance, and proposed a method for getting over the whole difficulty at once,' which was. by adding a: continental Legislatttre to Congress, who should be empowered to inake . loilits tot the Union, instead of recommending them. As the method proposed met - with • their full approba.. ;inn' s . I held myself in reserve to' take tip the subject wheneter a dire et occasion occurred. - In a conversation afterwards with Governor Clin- • ton; of -New York, it Was adjudged that for the pur pose of my going fully -into the subjeCl, and to pre-. ietit any inisc , ntstruction of, my- motivea- or oiled, it would be best that I -received nothing from -Con , gross, but leave it to the States individually to mak e ' me what acknowledgments they pleased." The State of NeW York; tnallo me a present of a farm, which sitn,..c. pay return. to Ainerica, I hav e t found it neees)aq tp, 4 sell ;' -and : the State-of Pensyl vapia voted. n*Avo,hipdred peueds, their currency.' But,noee of the,Siates to the eastward:of New York, or to the soutlitiSard of. Philadelphia, ,made me the least acknowledgment. Tlkey had-received benefits frolii Me which they accepted, tindJltere the matter: ended, This story will . 714 . cell ,well in Alistory., All ' tlincivilized world knows, I. have been of great:ser viz-e to the United States, and have generously:given . away talents that woeld,tlave made m , e a:fortune. . , I inueli question wheth'er an ipstance is tot.be, f y od,, in antient .or tilila ', ,!in time as, of malt .who 104' 1 ,itil pet - Oita! interest in ;he, cause lie teak up; flizii. - Of independence and the representative system qt tr:o7.ernment, apd , who seuglit neither place nor effiee alter it was established, that preserved the same oodzviaiing principles as I have done for More than th;fty years; and that in spite of dittic"ulties, dangers, and inconvernettees, , of which I have had 114 share. •, ~ - TuoraAs Lriltiii. This word was lo marked iu the origihal. 'III6M THE AMERICAN P4PER;I' WA ; sitti - 42 - 05,• . ti.4. --. '`i.5.--The following Bill ilas§eFl she }ions() ofßepi•esenthtives, been taken !:p in Senate, read, and passed to a second reading. • , . • AN ACT, . . ZUPPieTeMtary.to.the Act entitle 1 "'An Ali to pro, . hibit the Importation of certain.Coods, Itares, and 4 Mlirch . andizi." . • Be it ena6ted by the Senate and. Eint:ce of R,!..• presentatives of ~the United States, - in Congt:e4, sembled, That nothing in the A& to w hich tbis' is a.Supplement, shall be so (= vaned as, to pl•uhi bitthe-itinioitation of the ft.glowing articles,_ that is . to say:- _ . , First. WrapperS and Outside ,packages in whit:l4 r gopds, the importation of which is not Prohibited, usually are•and shall be, wrapped or picked at the time of theirimportation. Second. Bags or sacks in which , salt shall be int..' ported.. That . olaSs boffins; or -phials, in which drugs, medicines, bi , any other,article, the nnportation (if which is not'Prohibited,,shall be,imPorted. Fotiri ci. , Printed . books, maps, and charts. - 'Filth.. Watches, mathematical, astronomic-31, and, ntical 'instruments, Shalloons, and woollen stuffs, muskett, bayunets swords, cutlasses; and Sec: And be it farther etias.tccl, That the arti, cleiof the following description shall be held and considered as being embraced by the description 'of articles, the importation of which is prohibited b'y the Ad to which this VI is a supplement, that to say : All articles'inanUfaelured entirely of sidt and wool, or of silk and flax; or, of flax and wool. Floor cloths, .woollen cassimeres, carpets, carpet, ing, and mats, whosinvoice prices snail exceed live shillings sterling per square yard. Sea, _a,, be it further enacted, That whenso, ever otcthe trial Of any libel, or prosecution fig anf fine, pennk, or forfeiture, accruing under the 44 , to..whichAk is a supplement, a question shall ari s e whether any article or articles imported, or put oil . board any ship or vessel, boat, raft, or carriage, with the Intention of importing the same into the United States, be embraced by the description of tutielesS the importation of which is prohibited by the said Acl, and judgment shallbegivenagainst the claim ant or claimants . pf said article or articles, and thorn-, upon he or they shall pr. , Ec- or their I .eiirion ; and if, on inquiry thereon bent; ronf!)rtnably. to the provisions of the Aa,, entitled, A.,Lt. to . proyide for mitigating or rvibitting fotteit penalties,. and disabilities," acci uit4 iii ec , rtain thereitymentioned," it "appear to-the satisfac, tion of the Secretary of the :Treasury of the UnUnited States th?t there was,. front the nature, of said arti cles;tr,,eliiniable cause of doubt wliether- the same were tidibiked'within the deseription of articles. : the importatixt of wli elt is prohibited as aforesaid, that he shall t} have prx:Ver to mitigate or remit an4r such : ..pue, penalty, or forfeiture, agreeably to the pro Visions Of_the said list Mentioned Aet. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no arti deli imported on board any : vessel of the `United, States, cleared out before the L4th day of Deeet - nbcr last, from any port. within the Quited Stales, Or : the tefritories thereof, shall be subjea to the prolik, bition enaated by the Ad to which this Mt is a ' NEw Yottt, FEB. 17.---A Letter from Wdshing7, ton, of the 19th instant, ,says—" . : I am :infor,lied that the President Observed yesterday, to a Mr. Wilson, of Philadelphia, that our disputes with great Britam were in a favourable train of settle invent, agreeably to his wishes."---(New York Ca.: zette.),. ltt contrroation of the above, another ,Letter, raceived misr.erday, ,frorn a respe&able source at washintoli, says-1 4 Rest assured, .that the ffaences .lietween this Country and Great Britain kill be amicably settled in a very short tithe, and the embirgo raised." Yortx,„Faa. 22.—A Letter from Wash ington says, That Mr. Rosa, has requested, as a preliminary measure to discussion, the . rescinding of the President's prohibitory Proclamation, on the ground,•that as the affair 'of the Citesatfeake. Was ati unwarrantable and unauthorised ad Of an individual, which has been inurimediately disavowed by his Government, the Government of the United Stated has no cause to persevere in an' a& of tutional' hostility; that if this ACI be reseinded, he is' pre pared to make every suitable reparation for the in. dividnal act, and to proceed to other points dis cussion. We learn by Letters from Mexico, 'that in case Spain Should be liubjugated_by BoONAtAIITL; the people of that. country are ready to throw oil the yoke of foreign dominion. WASHINGTONi FEB. 18;.—When the Sally lat Havanna!), the Government were in daily expeklat, tion pf .a visit from the British, and in consequence .had nieunted bQt pieces of Cannon on the .Moro, and Cavanias fort, atti4were making' every other preparation'th give them a warm reception. There were , jo.noo uuilitia enrolled, to. be in yeadinekis at a moment's warning, who were a§tually training with • the .regular troops. The Orrisons were doubly manned; and a: inucWi,stricier watch kept, than -twat by the centinels. . . . Among the last set: Pi.ipOrS, the follow ing Extra& from a 11):! , ..;:11(2:1 by Mr% GAR ttcti.c, at Copenhagen, and datrd plaet.%, No% • 1806; giving a description Ot some ./...);.orisit Putt Ws, is particularly entitled to the a tei ti ion of uur Readers, as it seen's': to be appropriat,! to the eharaeterand condnet pk son* persons nearer home (4 126 t charaCter and 'alai of these individuals (many of IA horn I know personally) werutuidoubied before the present Contittental:War. tool: Their language in all the eliangeswhich octur, leave nothing but a formal declaration of their prin. , Oipies, to ,convince ate of What May heexpeled froM them When he enemy is in possession of.Hol-, , stein. They rill represent the • dander ,to be lefS than it is, in order to:prevent the aeiVity pt: others, and will exaggerate it with the chance of securiug and extending their own authority. These 'persons Will then be capable 9f imputing as a crime • that more effi.etual means were tiot concerted for the dep. fence of the Country; and will recornmencLan ac .commodation,with France, - through . the voice of th e populace; •. not as an avowal of their choice, but as a meas u re ,. o f ricouity #v which, they have ken re. 4iuced.':*